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Etymology

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recession +‎ -like

Adjective

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recessionlike (comparative more recessionlike, superlative most recessionlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a financial recession.
    • 2007 December 29, “Cash-Strapped Consumers”, in New York Times[1]:
      That's because even optimistic growth forecasts — about 1.5 percent for this quarter and next — are too tepid to counter recessionlike conditions in which job growth slows, unemployment rises and paychecks shrink or disappear.